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Francis B. Nyamnjoh holds a PhD (1990), from the University of Leicester, UK. He joined the University of Cape Town in August 2009 as Professor of Social Anthropology from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, where he served as Head of Publications from July 2003 to July 2009.

He has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies at universities in Cameroon, Botswana and South Africa. In October 2012 he received a University of Cape Town Excellence Award for “Exceptional Contribution as a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities”, an award renewed in 2017 and again in 2022. In September 2021, he was elected as a fellow by the College of Fellows of the University of Cape Town, in recognition of his research. He is recipient of the “ASU African Hero 2013” annual award by the African Students Union, Ohio University, USA; of the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature; and of the ASAUK 2018 Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph for his book #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa.

He is: a B1 rated Professor and Researcher by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF); a Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Science since August 2011; a fellow of the African Academy of Science since December 2014; a fellow of the Academy of Science of South Africa since 2016; and chairs the Academic Advisory Board of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) since 2019.

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The Frobenius Institute's first expedition to Middle India was undertaken in 1955-1956 by Hermann Niggemeyer, accompanied by his wife Else. The couple conducted ethnographic studies amongst the Kuttia Kond in the highlands of the Indian state of Odisha (formerly: Orissa).

The maps attatched below show the travel routes from Frankfurt (Germany) to their research field in the village of Belaghar (formerly: Belagad), their trip from Belaghar back to Germany, as well as their travels within India. The Niggemeyers came to India by ship, took the train via Kolkata (formerly: Calcutta) to Bhubaneswar, and finally completed the rest of their journey by various cars, lorries and carts.

After finishing their research in Belaghar, the residence during their study of the Kuttia Kond, the Niggemeyers continued to remain in Odisha to study the Ikat-weaving industry in Boudh as well as another Kond group. They also spent some time in Puri to recuperate.

On their journey back to Germany the Niggemeyers made detours across the country, such as in Agra and Aurangabad, before embarking on the ship journey back to Europe in Mumbai. During this cruise, the Niggemeyers toured Egypt and spent time sightseeing.

The map displaying the Kuttia villages that the Niggemeyers visited around their base of operations in Belaghar shows those villages that can still be found today.

The maps were created by Alisa Napitupulu during a student internship in 2021.

 

Journey from Frankfurt to India:

 

Journey through India to Belaghar, Odisha:

 

Visited Kuttia Villages and Towns around Belaghar:

 

Stay in Odisha after research in Belaghar was completed:

 

Stay in India after all research in India was completed:

 

Journey from India back to Germany:

Overview of the workshop's contributions:

Zaal Kikvidze, Botany and Ecology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia 

"Evolution and Conservation of Agricultural Traditions in Georgia"

 

Nina Stepanyan-Gandilyan, Plant Taxonomy Department, Institute of Botany of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

"Pomegranate: Interconnected Fates of the Ornamental Motive and Plant-Prototype"

 

Heiko Conrad, Medieval History and Armenology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main; Susanne Fehlings, Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology at Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main

"Planting Pomegranate Trees, Creating Gardens, Making Paradise: From Ancient Mesopotamia to California"

 

David Friedman, Studies in Classics, University of Cambridge, GB

"The Hanging Gardens in Ancient Greek and Latin Historians"

 

Ketevan Gurchiani, Anthropology, Ilia University, Tbilisi

"Zelkova and Mulberry: Protected Trees and Resistance"

 

Paul Manning, Anthropology, Trent University

"Gardens in Tbilisi"

 

Lale Yalcin-Heckmann, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, and associate member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale

"Scented Rose: A Plant or a Commodity?"

 

Roland Hardenberg, Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology at Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main

"Millets in India: From 'Poor Men’s Food' to 'Super-Food'"

 

Sandra Calkins, Free University, Berlin, Berlin

"Touching Plants. Affective Encounters in the Botanical Gardens in Berlin"

 

ISSN 2510-2826

Working Paper Series Editorial Board

Susanne Fehlings (Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt a.M., Germany)

Hasan Karrar (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

Ketevan Khutsishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

Hamlet Melkumyan (Inst. of Ethnography & Archeology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia)

Philippe Rudaz (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Switzerland)

John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)

http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/series/id/16223

 

Publishers of the working paper series are also happy to consider new submissions, provided the manuscript deals with informal markets and trade, broadly defined. If the manuscript passes initial editorial review, we offer friendly, nonblinded peer review, after which the paper will be published electronically and uploaded to the University of Frankfurt Library website. Authors retain copyright.

 

• No. 1: Fehlings, Susanne & Hasan Karrar (October 2016): Informal Markets and Trade in the Caucasus and Central Asia: A Preliminary Framework for Field Research. Download Working Paper No.1

• No. 2: Hardenberg, Roland & Susanne Fehlings (December 2016): Informality Reviewed: Everyday Experiences and the Study of Transformational Processes in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Download Working Paper No. 2

• No. 3: Rudaz, Philippe (April 2017): The State of MSME Development in Kyrgyzstan. Download Working Paper No. 3

• No. 4: Karrar, Hasan (May 2017): Do Bazaars Die? Notes on Failure in the Central. Download Working Paper No. 4

• No. 5: Melkumyan, Hamlet (February 2018): Informality, Politics and Mutual Support in Armenian Flee Markets. Download Working Paper No. 5

• No. 6: Khutsishvili, Ketevan (March 2018): Marketplaces: Meeting Places in Border Zones of Georgia. Download Working Paper No. 6

• No. 7: Mussin, Arman (March 2018): Patterns of Informal Trade in Petropavl, Kazakhstan. Download Working Paper No. 7

• No. 8: Taalaibekova, Gulniza (April 2018): The Changing Perception of Trade as “Real” Work: The Unmaking of Soviet Workers at the Vernissage in Armenia. Download Working Paper No. 8

• No. 9: Sarsenbaeva, Aigerim (2018): When a Market Prefers to Be Informal: The Case of Kazakhstani Medical Plants. Download Working Paper No. 9.

• No. 10: Pourtskhvanidze, Zakharia & Tskhvediani, Nanuli (September 2021): Cryptolanguage of Georgian Jewish Merchants. Download Working Paper No. 10

• No. 11: Conrad, Heiko (September 2021): A Road as an Empire: Some Remarks about the Most Important Ancient Periods and Powers of and along the Silk Road. Download Working Paper No. 11.

• No. 12: Melkumyan, Hamlet, Fehlings, Susanne, Karrar, Hasan H. & Philippe Rudaz (December 2021): Bazaar Pathologies: Informality, Independent Businesses, and Covid-19 in the South Caucasus. Download Working Paper No. 12.

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